Poking holes in the Brookings Institution’s “preening conceit”–“they bequeath their website with an ‘.edu’ suffix… They are ‘scholars.’ Just ask them and they’ll tell you“–Salon‘s Glenn Greenwald (5/26/09, ad-viewing required) quotes one blogger fundamentally debunking Brookings mainstay William Glaberson‘s May 22 New York Times contention that, as U.S. president, Barack Obama “has sworn an oath to protect the country”: “Barack Obama did not swear an oath to ‘protect the country.’ He swore an oath to protect the principles upon which the country was founded and the document in which those principles are enshrined.” Looking more broadly at “Beltway world,” in […]